Ancient Greco-Roman magic and the agency of victimhood

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Ancient Greco-Roman magic and the agency of victimhood

Scholarship on ancient Greco-Roman “magic,” over time and place, has largely focused on the role and identity of ritual practitioners, investigating the nature and source of their perceived expertise and often locating it in their linguistic skills. Less attention has been paid to those identified a...

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Main Author:	Eidinow, Esther
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill 2017
Subjects:	magic ritual ritual form ritualization Libanius Catherine Bell Robert McCauley E. Thomas Lawson
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34136/

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